"Heart disease takes years to decades to develop, and the process starts in the younger years," one heart doctor told us. Here, cardiologists share their best-kept secrets to set up your ticker for a ...

Central obesity measures of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio appear to be more accurate and consistent indicators of colorectal cancer incidence compared with BMI, according to a study ...

higher waist-to-hip ratio (indicative of central obesity), and were more likely to be prior smokers who never drank alcohol (all p<0.05) (table 1). Additionally, participants with incident glaucoma ...

The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...

The Chinese study published in the journal Nature Aging measured levels in the brain of 13 specific proteins that are ...

Shopping for jeans can be a real guessing game. When I’m on the hunt at a store and heading to the dressing room, I usually take a pair in the size I think I am, one in the next size down, and ...

LONDON – Medical experts proposed a radical overhaul of how obesity is diagnosed, moving away from relying on body mass alone and adding broader measurements such as heart health. The ...

a person would be deemed to have stage 1 obesity if they have a BMI of more than 23 — waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio is optional for this group — but do not have symptoms that show ...

With enough controversy to fill a buffet table, their new definition is sparking heated ... Alternatively, a series of accepted anthropometric criteria, such as waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio ...

Tables and figures were used to present the results of the ... WC, Waist circumference; WHR, Waist to hip ratio.

Davis and Strauss filed a patent for the rivet-reinforced waist overalls that would eventually become known as jeans. By 1890, the patent expired and Levi’s was no longer the style’s exclusive ...